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Sharyn,
Very interesting, was there much bidding on the online auction, did the description give away the value at all, what made you buy them? Was it $5 per book, or $5 for all?Nice sale on the Pantone book, I had no idea on those
What I continue to get from the videos is that by owning your own time, you can tinker with audio and other mechanical objects like that great Sunburst, clean them up and sell for better than decent profit.
In the meantime, allow me to bring a little dignity to the table with this weird toy bat sale. Accepted $120 Best Offer, buyer shelled out another $50 to ship to Sweden. Ryanne’s pricing method of setting a wacky price, and accepting a much lower yet wacky enough offer was utilized, thank you yet again Ryanne!10/31/2018 at 10:29 am in reply to: what is this shot glass looking thing with the painted dog? #51002Hi Maggie,
Loving this little rarity. I’m thinking it is part of a decanter set, dog themed obviously, there would be a different color ring on each glass. It probably came boxed with a number of other glasses and the decanter, earlier mid century. Just my thoughts, however it may be a good thing to add DECANTER to the title or item specs to help with search. I would take the time to list it if it was my find, very cool!Here is an email I just sent to a 0 feedback buyer who made a substantial $200 offer on an old milk can.
I sent the email last night. It is not a form letter, each situation a bit different. In the end, the buyer opted for me to ship, which will be about $100 for this big heavy can. Maybe helpful:Hello and thank you for your offer!
I would required full payment by Paypal before arrangements are made by you for pickup.
My part of this transaction is accepting payment, continue to properly store the can,
and be reasonably available for pickup, due to work schedules.
I can not be involved in the moving or packing of the can, even if you choose to use a third party service.Please do not send any contact information until payment is made, eBay frowns greatly on this!
Please let me know if you want to proceed, and I will happily accept your payment.
As you know, this is a RARE can and $200 is a GREAT price, congrats!My apologies for so much explanation. I see that you have 0 feed backs, and I don’t want any surprises for you, only success!
My feeling is that you may have some experience in buying, and quite possibly selling old things!Most Sincerely,
and Sincerely at your service,
TomHi nick, welcome, yes you found the good guys, and now you’re one of them, not saying you were a bad guy before, just a good guy outsider! The Podcast and forum has transformed my eBay & Etsy selling, and transformed my mind. What happens here and how it benefits active members should not be understated. It will be interesting hearing about your successes with the scientific approach applied to buy & sell. See you around the forums, oh and congrats on changing $5 into $50, good science.
Tom
Have not listened yet, at the regular job and activity has picked up as we are now into ‘season’ down here in SW Fl, beautiful weather, and people have arrived.
10/21 – 10/27/18
eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 669
Number of items sold: 8, (2 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $266.30
Cost of items sold: $19.50
Consignment payouts $5
Highest price sold: $120.00 – Knock off Madballs plastic toy monster bat
Average price sold: $33.0
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
Sell through rate for the week: 1.2Etsy store Oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 653
Number of items sold: 6, (1 international)
Total etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $140.00
Cost of items sold: $9
Consignment payouts: 0
Highest price sold: two items sold for $30.00 each – black cat figurine, Walco 70’s Christmas ornament kit
Average price sold: $23.33
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 33
Sell through rate for the week: 1.0Below is the best sale, made my Ebay store selling week fair rather than poor! Another weird toy from the 80’s toy/novelty shop storage buyout. The buyer is from Sweden, offer received was $120 and paid he $55 to ship. This is another cheap (but cool and creepy) knock off toy, this one copying the popular 80’s Madballs toys.
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totommyto. Reason: Ooops, 0 items listed on ebay, not 20!
Just adding my piece, Happened to me twice, sat on the packages for about 3 months, relisted, sold and shipped to another buyer, worked out to double sales. I know it feels weird, but sit & wait is best, then relist after enough time has passed. People die, go to jail, go wherever, or just forget. Enjoy the blessing, Lord knows we sellers put out the other way!
Got it on the pennants, only scored there one time, it was a very good sale. Yes, the pins, I talk big but have been floating the forum, alrighty
My name is Tom, I’m a crazy resale guy
oh, this is at a way wider scope than my little car full, an entirely different deal. Just read.
Once this is completely over, maybe start looking for a good local Dickens Village resale support group and talk this out for a few months. Certainly you must have been purty pugnacious at times. Justified.T-Satt,
This looks like fun, to read!
After a listing binge, I’m running back over to hear about this, been waiting.
I bailed on my ‘resale’ little snowy Christmas village collection some years back, flipping at a shop for low profit.
Funny, I never regretted doing it.Winchester,
I like all of those B&B you mentioned, all on my gentle hunting list, pennants not so much, they seem to be overpriced often or not as vintage as claimed.Just the motto I needed to get my new crop of ‘girly’ lapel pins up on etsy. The last cache of old pins I listed sold consistently, still selling. Another cache is on on eBay, only motorcycle racing stickers. Pins averaging around $15 e. stickers set at $10 e. the new batch of pins I’ve been listing at $20 e. Slow & True & sometimes perfectly timely pipelines. Now to start listing them there lovely little darling lapel pins! Motto!
10/25/2018 at 10:58 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Hood scoop, Stratoscope photo, Mailbox, Carhartt vest, Amplifiers, Crescent moon shadow box #50720A return buyer on Etsy purchased 4 rusty hooks and a block/tackle/rope with hooks assembly for a total of $158. The purchase cost of all was $20.00. In the past this buyer has purchased smallish rusty boat anchors from me. What is interesting is he pays full shipping for these rusty items and never communicates. I was able to squeeze this latest lot of hooks into a Priority large flat, and refunded him the serious shipping overage. The rope with hardware sold for $75, the remaining single hooks between $15 – $30 each. This is probably a scavenging area most of us have not tapped into, and it too comes with the usual learning curve. I have similar success with long (and heavy!) lengths of rust chains.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/625828447/hooks-block-tackle-double-pulley-rope?show_sold_out_detail=1
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